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  • What are soil-transmitted helminthiasis?

    26 february 2016

    The soil-transmitted helminthiasis are one of the most common parasitism in the world affecting the poorest and most disadvantaged communities. 

  • Workshop on Chagas at the UV

    25 february 2016

  • Diagnosis of Neglected Diseases: molecules and tropics

    15 february 2016

    Molecular diagnosis brings new possibilities to the treatment and attention of neglected diseases.

  • Pilot Plan in Mozambique to eradicate Malaria

    29 january 2016

    If the plan is effective it will be launched in more places so as to eliminate a disease that affects much of the African continent. The plan consists of several parts , here we will explain.

  • Molecular diagnosis and tropical diseases

    13 january 2016

    The molecular diagnosis could help cure tropical diseases effectively. This method has been in place 20 years but has never been applied to tropical diseases. The book 'Diagnosis of neglected diseases: molecules and tropic' deals with it.

  • What is the Zika virus?

    18 december 2015

    The Zika virus, also called Zika fever, is a relatively new disease, a member of the Flaviviridae family. A virus for which there is no vaccine or specific treatment and threatens to spread , for now plaguing Latin America

  • Climate change and infectious diseases in the appearance of the WHO expert Mas-Coma before the Sri Lanka Press

    16 december 2015

    The director of the Master’s Degree in Tropical Parasitic Diseases of the Universitat de València, professor Mas-Coma, as current President-elect of the World Federation, expert of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and director of the Collaborating Centre of the WHO and Centre of Reference of FAO-United Nations in Valencia, was in charge on Sunday of giving a press conference to some means of communication of Sri Lanka, on the occasion of its opening conference of the opening session in the “International Conference in Tropical Medicine”, which these days takes place in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka.